Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #532 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vsurerusurer

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 978 times in 214 works
Consistency: 100% (978 of 978)
Reach if approved: ~1,028 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usurer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 978 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (978 changes in 214 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 978)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it ſends farre and nee… and gathereth Towne a… Countrey to ſeeke it; as … VſurerUsurer that is reſolved to continue in it, hee goes to fourty Miniſters about it …
With rule
… it ſends farre and nee… and gathereth Towne a… Countrey to ſeeke it; as … VſurerUsurer that is reſolved to continue in it, hee goes to fourty Miniſters about it …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as hath bene ſhewed before. Herein you ſeeme to be like vnto that famous vſurerusurer who rejoyced to heare that ſin of vſury reproved, condemned and publiquely preached againſt …
With rule
… as hath bene ſhewed before. Herein you ſeeme to be like vnto that famous vſurerusurer who rejoyced to heare that ſin of vſury reproved, condemned and publiquely preached againſt …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 471 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Family of loue, & al other heretiks & euil doers: the vnclean perſon, the oppreſſor, deceiuer, vſurerusurer, drunkard: the euill miniſter when he is cryed out againſt, and taunted by the …
With rule
… Family of loue, & al other heretiks & euil doers: the vnclean perſon, the oppreſſor, deceiuer, vſurerusurer, drunkard: the euill miniſter when he is cryed out againſt, and taunted by the …
Oliver Pigg · Treatise on 1 Peter 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have improv'd the reward of his Masters bloud to the best advantage that ever VsurerUsurer did, yet the rust would at last have seiz'd upon his bags, and his …
With rule
… have improv'd the reward of his Masters bloud to the best advantage that ever VsurerUsurer did, yet the rust would at last have seiz'd upon his bags, and his …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
Only the VsurerUsurer needs not say his prayers.
With rule
Only the VsurerUsurer needs not say his prayers.
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… parson of such a Parish, a Knight, a Iustice of Peace, a Gentleman, an VsurerUsurer, and my Master; Alas, answeres the Host, I haue not lodging for halfe so …
With rule
… parson of such a Parish, a Knight, a Iustice of Peace, a Gentleman, an VsurerUsurer, and my Master; Alas, answeres the Host, I haue not lodging for halfe so …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will, they are Tygers still: and giue vsury what name you please, (for what VsurerUsurer is not asham'd to bee called so?) it is meere madnesse. He is madde …
With rule
… will, they are Tygers still: and giue vsury what name you please, (for what VsurerUsurer is not asham'd to bee called so?) it is meere madnesse. He is madde …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very ſhame to kéep ſilence. Doth the preacher perſwade any man to be an vſurerusurer, an oppreſſor, a hard dealer, a drunkard, a whoremaſter, or the like? Nay it …
With rule
… very ſhame to kéep ſilence. Doth the preacher perſwade any man to be an vſurerusurer, an oppreſſor, a hard dealer, a drunkard, a whoremaſter, or the like? Nay it …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.